Hints and tips:
...The plot pleasurably wrongfoots the reader, and the enigmatic Trapp is dexterously drawn....
...Photographer’s assistants, Cameron Williamson and Matt Trapp. Digital operator, Emre Cakir. Stylist’s assistants, Imaan Sayed and Aylin Bayhan. Tailor, Carson Darling-Blair....
...Edward Harrison as Captain von Trapp has the tough job of crafting a full person out of a set of principles....
...The silverback called time, first by “mock” charging us and then leading his family to the edge of the swamp, where one by one they turned to us in valediction, like hirsute Von Trapps, before disappearing...
...Stokke ash 50th anniversary Tripp Trapp chair, £235, johnlewis.com...
...“There isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution,” she says....
...And Miller’s fondness for ensemble playing didn’t help. By that year, of course, Plummer had also been Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music....
...“I don’t focus on a certain period,” says Rafanelli. “The original patina is what is important to me. My pieces end up in country villas and Manhattan lofts.” MCOF @lucaworkshop...
...What I didn’t notice until I received the booking confirmation is that it doesn’t have a bathroom....
...Many jewellers, such as Lilian von Trapp, have responded by opting to use only recycled gold in designs. Other brands, including Monarc, use lab-grown diamonds....
...There will be absolutely no mention of the Von Trapp family. The best-known carols — Silent Night, What Child is This, O Little Town — need not appear....
...Pragmatic from the pram, I preferred Julie Andrews in her drab Sound of Music serge, careering about Salzburg with the little Von Trapps....
...“I was the whole Famous Five, including the dog, or Maria von Trapp escaping the Nazis,” she says, laughing. “I wasn’t thinking in terms of writing, though....
...with reference points ranging from old editions of the Quelle catalogue to sharply turned-out young gents wearing traditional Tracht in Kitzbühel to the closing scene of The Sound of Music, where the von Trapps...
...Cabaret is set against the rise of Nazism in Berlin, while the street gangs of West Side Story, the draft-defying hippies of Hair, even the von Trapps in The Sound of Music are all tied up in much larger...
...Facts and stats can’t and don’t express feelings, let alone capture the propensity of human beings to change their minds....
...Kevin Trapp of Paris Saint-Germain, who is one of Europe’s best keepers at stopping penalties, having saved 39 per cent, says: “I face each penalty with the expectation of saving it....
...“We weren’t the Von Trapps. My dad was a painter, we all painted. Mum had been — she’d wanted to be an actor, when she was younger; life took over, the 1950s took over....
...The award for best pre-apology in a musical must go to Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music: “You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we’ve had a disagreement?...
...Mr Trapp said had mixed feelings about SMD’s sale. “To sell it to the Chinese is disrespectful to the past — but the past doesn’t matter, it’s the future....
...Yes, it’s true, I did always want to be The Sound of Music’s Maria in a bid to dance the Ländler with Captain von Trapp; or maybe The Slipper and the Rose’s Cinderella, whirling across the ballroom with...
...And its success hasn’t gone unnoticed....
...He’d always been sent to stay with relatives during the school holidays, because “most likely they didn’t want me around”. (Who can blame them? Meades would have made Maria von Trapp depressed.)...
...There remain some wonderful songs but even these don’t stand the test with a Lady Gaga generation....
...The point about Maria is that she isn’t confident at all. “Oh help,” she says, when she sees the size of the entrance to the Von Trapp home....
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